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I am against marriage, and I don't give a fig for society.
Brigitte Bardot

I call a fig a fig, a spade a spade.
Menander

I've never turned over a fig leaf yet that didn't have a price tag on the other side.
Saul Bellow

Nature also forges man, now a gold man, now a silver man, now a fig man, now a bean man.
Paracelsus

No greater thing is created suddenly, any more than a bunch of grapes or a fig. If you tell me that you desire a fig, I answer you that there must be time. Let it first blossom, then bear fruit, then ripen.
Epictetus

Nothing great is created suddenly, any more than a bunch of grapes or a fig. If you tell me that you desire a fig. I answer you that there must be time. Let it first blossom, then bear fruit, then ripen.
Epictetus

Our Lord never condemned the fig tree because it brought forth so much fruit that some fell to the ground and spoiled. He only cursed it when it was barren.
Edwin Louis Cole

The accords were fig leaves of democratic procedure to hide the nakedness of Stalinist dictatorship.
George F. Kennan

The type of fig leaf which each culture employs to cover its social taboos offers a twofold description of its morality. It reveals that certain unacknowledged behavior exists and it suggests the form that such behavior takes.
Freda Adler

When the Jewish people, after nearly 2,000 years of exile, under relentless persecution, became a nation again on 14 May 1948 the 'fig tree' put forth its first leaves. Jesus said that this would indicate that He was 'at the door,' ready to return.
Hal Lindsey

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